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was just candidate barack obama. they have a similar world via. he has been serving as the -- on the intelligence advisory board code-share. they get along. he is likely to implement his policies. he has a great personal relationship with him. host: what about the confirmation process for the forming the senator -- for the former senator? there has been a vote count out there the right now there are senators that oppose him. guest: i would not trust any vote count. most senators lamont's commit before they have had a chance to properly is that the nomination. what we do know is there are about five senators who promised to vote no on his nomination. they are republicans, which is ironic because when he was in the senate he was a republican, but the party has moved away from the centrist approach to foreign policy. there is discussion whether that would be enough to scuttle his nomination. they are prepared to put a lot of political capital behind his nomination. usually when they do that, they are able to get the nom
was just candidate barack obama. they have a similar world via. he has been serving as the -- on the intelligence advisory board code-share. they get along. he is likely to implement his policies. he has a great personal relationship with him. host: what about the confirmation process for the forming the senator -- for the former senator? there has been a vote count out there the right now there are senators that oppose him. guest: i would not trust any vote count. most senators lamont's commit...
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i am glad that obama picked chuck hagel. it is about time we got a real american hero that does not have to be vetted by cowards like lindsay gramm and the apac crowd. why doesn't he moved to israel and joined the knesset because many of us don't feel like he feels about israel and their politicians should not have to be vetted by a coward like lieberman or lindsey graham. host: why are you calling them a coward? caller: it is all about israel to these clowns and i am sick of it. we give these people $3 billion per year and all they do is give us guff. that is why. host: we are taking your phone calls this morning. about foreign policy challenges in 2013. this is the opening section of "usa today" - >there are other stories in noting that the former senator, chuck hagel, when he was in office, approved about $38 billion in aid for the jewish state along with multiple trips to beat -- to meet with leaders there. that is a little bit of background on chuck hagel. david, indianapolis, democratic caller -- caller: good morning.
i am glad that obama picked chuck hagel. it is about time we got a real american hero that does not have to be vetted by cowards like lindsay gramm and the apac crowd. why doesn't he moved to israel and joined the knesset because many of us don't feel like he feels about israel and their politicians should not have to be vetted by a coward like lieberman or lindsey graham. host: why are you calling them a coward? caller: it is all about israel to these clowns and i am sick of it. we give these...
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president obama may soon decide on a faster downsizing of troops. the $88 billion requested for overseas contingency operations and into 2013 is a relatively noncontroversial part of this whole thing. let me talk about a couple of numbers. that $80 billion is about half of where we were, need to be added about $550 billion in the base budget plus the nuclear weapons activities of the department of energy is about $550 billion in 2013. we do have a defense authorization bill, it does have limited significance this year sent the appropriations which provide the money are being done on this ongoing continuing resolution bases and since sequestration is still a possibility in two months. to give a feel for that $550 billion, how does that compare to a couple of reference point? you can look of that number as being really big or modest, depending on your vantage point. historically in the cold war, we averaged about boarded 75 -- $457 billion dollars a year. that is adjusted for inflation. on the other hand, we are now down by about $100 billion from rep
president obama may soon decide on a faster downsizing of troops. the $88 billion requested for overseas contingency operations and into 2013 is a relatively noncontroversial part of this whole thing. let me talk about a couple of numbers. that $80 billion is about half of where we were, need to be added about $550 billion in the base budget plus the nuclear weapons activities of the department of energy is about $550 billion in 2013. we do have a defense authorization bill, it does have...
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he criticized the obama administration's policy towards syria and talked about the u.s. role in dealing with global issues. joining him were canadian foreign minister peter mackay and colombia's foreign defense minister. this runs a little over an hour. >> good afternoon. the last session before lunch. the good guys, the special burden of democratic nations, and i'm going to hand over straight away to our moderator, kathleen koch, to get proceedings underway. >> thank you, robin. and thank you all for joining us today. the title of our panel, um, in and of itself "the good guys" question mark, i think, really does reflect the internal debate and the self-doubt that many in our community of democracy have been going through today as we look at
he criticized the obama administration's policy towards syria and talked about the u.s. role in dealing with global issues. joining him were canadian foreign minister peter mackay and colombia's foreign defense minister. this runs a little over an hour. >> good afternoon. the last session before lunch. the good guys, the special burden of democratic nations, and i'm going to hand over straight away to our moderator, kathleen koch, to get proceedings underway. >> thank you, robin....
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he worked well with president obama. he is the guy obama trust most and this is a sensitive post at a very sensitive time. i think it is an extremely good appointment. host: what does the job entailed? guest: the director of the cia is different than what was before 2004. in 2004, four of us in congress, led the fight for intelligent reform and we've restructured our intelligence committee after the bad intelligence on iraq to have a joint commander. person is called the director of national intelligence. the current one is james clapper, a former three-star military man from the pentagon. under him are 16 intelligence agencies and the cia is one of those before that, the director of central intelligence had nominally have the coordination role. now, the cia is one of 16 but it is our primary spy agency. its role under the reorganization has become even more crucial. if you have seen "zero dark thirty," it shows the central the cia played in identifying the career and once we identified him, we found the house in about a
he worked well with president obama. he is the guy obama trust most and this is a sensitive post at a very sensitive time. i think it is an extremely good appointment. host: what does the job entailed? guest: the director of the cia is different than what was before 2004. in 2004, four of us in congress, led the fight for intelligent reform and we've restructured our intelligence committee after the bad intelligence on iraq to have a joint commander. person is called the director of national...
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obama makes perfect sense. i do not know so much about the cia. i know more about chuck hagel and the west coast. i commend president obama. thank you. >> let's take a look. he was in industries what. most recently he his share of the capital. not as well known as john brennan. he has been deputy from 2001 to 2003. he has been with the cia for about 20 years. he is fluent in arabic. let's get back to your calls. alice on the line right here in washington, d.c.. thank you for having me on. i think we need to get on the process with healing. we're all americans. these are distinguished gentleman. the president sees all of these things. in the white house we have a great president. we do not know everything about what is happening. let's give us a break. let's give our country a break. just get on with the business. >> the democrats across the line. what do you think about the nominee's? >> i think it is pretty good. chuck hagel, i called a long time ago when he was young. hello? am i on? i did not know that he had turned a gay. i know that it is a p
obama makes perfect sense. i do not know so much about the cia. i know more about chuck hagel and the west coast. i commend president obama. thank you. >> let's take a look. he was in industries what. most recently he his share of the capital. not as well known as john brennan. he has been deputy from 2001 to 2003. he has been with the cia for about 20 years. he is fluent in arabic. let's get back to your calls. alice on the line right here in washington, d.c.. thank you for having me on....
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the personal narrative of barack obama is irrelevant. that's why there is such continuity, whether it is i am purely war, assault on civil liberties, failure to curb wall street from bush to obama. those who actually decide and we just went through a 2.5 billion electoral charade are not in the white house. in terms of build a movement, yes, you're right. all of those activities have to be done and they are being done. but they're being done on a push smaller scale. that was exactly what i saw in eastern europe. if you saw, for instance, in leipzig, week after week the candlelight vigils against the commonist dictatorship and suddenly 70,000 people showed up. this is what havel points out in his essay, the power of the powerless, living in truth. you're exactly right, those activities have to be carried out. working with the occupy movement after the destruction, there is a clear kind of despair. i think we have to% that we have to keep going, this is with a occupy sandy has done. because as half he will points out -- havel points out we
the personal narrative of barack obama is irrelevant. that's why there is such continuity, whether it is i am purely war, assault on civil liberties, failure to curb wall street from bush to obama. those who actually decide and we just went through a 2.5 billion electoral charade are not in the white house. in terms of build a movement, yes, you're right. all of those activities have to be done and they are being done. but they're being done on a push smaller scale. that was exactly what i saw...
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gues the hands of president obama. that's all for us tonight. "a.c. 360" starts right now. >>> welcome to the program. we begin tonight keeping them honest with new information that goes straight to a key question in that rape case out of steubenville, ohio. was a young woman, the young woman in this picture, as drunk and seemingly incapacitated as that photo would seem to suggest? was she too out of it or outright unconscious when the state of ohio claims two stars of the local football team sexually assaulted her during a string of parties back in august? we covered the story late last week when some explosive video was posted online when a teen who may have witnessed the alleged rape was seen joking about the incident. watch. >> what if that was your daughter? >> but it isn't. >> what if it was? >> if that was my daughter, i wouldn't care. i'd just let her be dead. >> no, you wouldn't. listen to yourself. >> i'm listening to myself fine. >> in about ten years, i'm going to come back. >> ten years, my daughter's going to be getting rapes and d
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&kind of push back against obama. at this stage of the game, he's not going to make a strong stand. >> now, nia merks alquia and former speaker was on "face the nation. and she said she would use the 14th amendment to avoid a shut down. listen to h. >> if i were president, i would use the 14th amendment that says -- >> you would just go ahead and do it. >> okay. right. >> what do you think the american public has been supportive of the president so far. what do you think they would do is the president just said i'm going to use the 14th amendment. and 57% say the pthd got more than what he wanted. >> you know, i'm not sure how the public will react. he's not going to ha lewisuate at all over this. he's probably going to have to move. as things go forward, oh, he does think that he's going to use this 14th amendment. i think um have lots 06 democrats and fro greszives and liberals safing they should invoke that 14 amendment laws. >>> i think they're worried about the optics. again, a lot of blustering and brink ship go
&kind of push back against obama. at this stage of the game, he's not going to make a strong stand. >> now, nia merks alquia and former speaker was on "face the nation. and she said she would use the 14th amendment to avoid a shut down. listen to h. >> if i were president, i would use the 14th amendment that says -- >> you would just go ahead and do it. >> okay. right. >> what do you think the american public has been supportive of the president so far....
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he's former white house deputy secretary for the obama administration. he's co-founder of priorities usa political action committee and he's a good sport who rushed over here when we suddenly changed the time at which he needed to arrive. thank you for hustling over here. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> is this a punch the hippie moment? is the white house concerned by the critique of drones from the left or do they share any of the aspects of that critique? >> well, even if you just take this back a step from talking about whether we're just talking about the left who has a critique or the american people who have a right to know certain things about what the government is doing, i think it's worth noting that the cia is accountable and they are accountable to congress and anytime congress wants to have a conversation with the head of the cia they bring him down and have a conversation with him. sometimes those conversations are open. sometimes those conversations are not. but congress does have oversight legally over what the cia is
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barack obama had a hard time with that. he doesn't like the back slapping that's required in politics. it's something the public admires in him and one reason why he is so popular generally with the public, that he is seen with a man with a lot of self-confidence and comfortable in his own skin. in this town, any political environment, you have to get to know the other side and empathize with them. it's not one of his greatest ranks so far. >> you point that out today in your piece, learning how to smooz could be a difference between a good and great presidency for president obama. who f how do you think he's doing so far? >> it's a struggle for him. we saw with the negotiations with republicans specifically speaker boehner, granted the republicans aren't giving an inch and they are very hard-headed and aren't willing to accommodate. but past presidents have had just as tough if not tougher rivals to go up against. instead of running towards boehner and running towards his enemies up on the hill getting to know him. the sma
barack obama had a hard time with that. he doesn't like the back slapping that's required in politics. it's something the public admires in him and one reason why he is so popular generally with the public, that he is seen with a man with a lot of self-confidence and comfortable in his own skin. in this town, any political environment, you have to get to know the other side and empathize with them. it's not one of his greatest ranks so far. >> you point that out today in your piece,...
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grover norquist shrugged it off. >> obama was the guy who said this is a tax holiday. calling it a tax holiday suggests they viewed it as temporary. holidays aren't permanent. >> you may say the parties to this deal were trying to reduce the deal. and saved $100 billion. well, yes. but then congress came around and pass sensitives, breaks that will cost $68 billion in this year alone. in other words, congress saved money by allowing taxes of wage earners to go up and it took 72% of those savings and turned around and gave them a way to, among other nascar to subsidize racetracks, hollywood to subsidize film production and wall street which maintained a $9.4 billion loophole called the active financing reception. all the back and forth over the fiscal cliff and top marge anal rate and chain cpis these deals were never discussed or negotiated over. there's always a foregone conclusion, wage earns were going to pay more in taxes while nascar and goldman sachs were going to get their tax breaks. some washington, it's always the things not debated that are the most dangerou
grover norquist shrugged it off. >> obama was the guy who said this is a tax holiday. calling it a tax holiday suggests they viewed it as temporary. holidays aren't permanent. >> you may say the parties to this deal were trying to reduce the deal. and saved $100 billion. well, yes. but then congress came around and pass sensitives, breaks that will cost $68 billion in this year alone. in other words, congress saved money by allowing taxes of wage earners to go up and it took 72% of...
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and he is the gentleman that obama trust the most. i think it is an extremely good appointment. >> host: what does the job entail? >> guest: it is a different job than what it was in 2004. in 2004, four of us in congress but the fight for intelligence reform and we restructured our intelligence community to have a joint commander. that person is called the director of national intelligence. the current one is james clapper and he is a military man from the pentagon. under him, there were others. there were also others that had intelligence roles. but now it is our primary agency and it will become even more crucial if you have seen zero dark 30, even though i think a few aspects aren't accurate. it shows the roles that were played in identifying the courier and there are critics. >> yes. >> senator john mccain is one. he says that he wants to take a closer look at the interrogations policies under the bush administration. including john brennan's involvement in them. >> guest: i applaud him. he has been saying forever for so long as t
and he is the gentleman that obama trust the most. i think it is an extremely good appointment. >> host: what does the job entail? >> guest: it is a different job than what it was in 2004. in 2004, four of us in congress but the fight for intelligence reform and we restructured our intelligence community to have a joint commander. that person is called the director of national intelligence. the current one is james clapper and he is a military man from the pentagon. under him, there...
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but with president obama re-elected, the u.s. out of iraq soon to be out of afghanistan and chuck hagel chosen for defense, that syndrome seems to be back again. >> bret: there are some in this town that the hagel nomination and all the controversy surrounding it is over hamas, the surge, it's going to get a lot of attention. perhaps it's going to take a lot of attention from the brennan nomination, do you buy that? >> i do. i think there will be a big fight over hagel. there will be confirmation hearings and suspends will he make it or will he not. i think in the end he will make it. it's unusual for the senate to engage in two major confirmations makess at the same time. >> bret: thank you. >>> concern about president obama getting a third term? it's out there. and if you thought all the drama ended at the fiscal cliff, washington may just be getting started. campbell's has 24 nes that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what
but with president obama re-elected, the u.s. out of iraq soon to be out of afghanistan and chuck hagel chosen for defense, that syndrome seems to be back again. >> bret: there are some in this town that the hagel nomination and all the controversy surrounding it is over hamas, the surge, it's going to get a lot of attention. perhaps it's going to take a lot of attention from the brennan nomination, do you buy that? >> i do. i think there will be a big fight over hagel. there will...
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. >>> raw politics now and a war of words breaking out over president obama's pick for secretary of defense. he's chuck hagel. >> chuck knows war is not a distraction. he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared towards the guy at the bottom who is doing the fighting and the dying. >> senator hagel, though, may not have an easy confirmation. here is the reaction today from senator john mccain, a one-time political ally who once considered hagel as a running mate. i have serious concerns about the positions senator hagel has taken on a range of critical issues in recent years which we will fully consider in the course of the confirmation process. he's talking about iran, his willingness to consider cuts to the budget, and perhaps his pro -pro pro-israel support. >> i'm a united states senator, not an israeli senator, but my first interest, i take an oath of office to the constitution. >> lindsey graham said his former colleague would, quote, be the
. >>> raw politics now and a war of words breaking out over president obama's pick for secretary of defense. he's chuck hagel. >> chuck knows war is not a distraction. he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared towards the guy at the bottom who is doing the fighting and the dying. >> senator hagel, though, may not have an easy...
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and so president obama said no. president obama would not agree to subject u.s. troops to iraqi jurisdiction. and that stalemate, that inability to come to an agreement on that issue is why we left zero troops behind in iraq. well, today when president obama announced his speeded up timeline for ending the current u.s. combat mission in afghanistan, he raised the prospect that we may not leave any american troops behind in afghanistan either if the afghanistan government insists that u.s. troops would have to be subject to afghan law and afghan courts in the event that they got in trouble. the same way that iraq insisted on that. this is not an issue that is unique to our latest wars. or this latest decision about where troops are going to be stationed and for how long. what you're looking at here is footage from protests against u.s. military personnel in japan and in south korea after u.s. military personnel stationed there committed high profile crimes there, and the local population was angry with how the issue was handled in terms of the criminal liability o
and so president obama said no. president obama would not agree to subject u.s. troops to iraqi jurisdiction. and that stalemate, that inability to come to an agreement on that issue is why we left zero troops behind in iraq. well, today when president obama announced his speeded up timeline for ending the current u.s. combat mission in afghanistan, he raised the prospect that we may not leave any american troops behind in afghanistan either if the afghanistan government insists that u.s....
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right now two-thirds of obama's team are baby boomers. history shows cabinet choices have lasting effects, madeleine albright's nomination was followed by 15 years of diverse secretaries of state. farther back, president lincoln's cabinet strategy as doris concerns goodwin's book describes, the ideal lives on. and how the choices are also about the future face of diversity at the highest levels of american political power. >> we'll continue to watch. >> it's early though, right. >> that's going to wrap up this hour. i'm chris jansing, thomas roberts is up next. >>> our agenda next hour, the republican neocons opposing chuck hagel are not just stopping with him but setting their sights on the nominee for cia director john brennan, why lindsay graham and others are threatening to block the nomination as well. plus i'll speak with chief hagel defender about the president's plan to get hagel through a brutal nomination. this developing news out of ohio, a town at the center of a sensational rape case on lockdown as lawyers for the two accused
right now two-thirds of obama's team are baby boomers. history shows cabinet choices have lasting effects, madeleine albright's nomination was followed by 15 years of diverse secretaries of state. farther back, president lincoln's cabinet strategy as doris concerns goodwin's book describes, the ideal lives on. and how the choices are also about the future face of diversity at the highest levels of american political power. >> we'll continue to watch. >> it's early though, right....
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i guess my future here is in the hands of president obama. that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts right now. >>> good evening. we begin tonight keeping them honest with new information that goes straight to a key question in the rape in steubenville, ohio. was the young woman in the picture as drunk and incapacitated as the photograph would suggest. was she too out of it or was she unconscious when two football players allegedly assaulted her during a string of parties in august? we covered this late last week when explosive video was posted on line when a teen who may have witnessed the alleged rape was seen joking about the incident. watch. >> what if that was your daughter? >> but it isn't. >> what if it was? >> if that was my daughter, i wouldn't care. i would let her be dead. >> listen to yourself. >> i listen to myself fine. >> in about ten years, i'm going to go back. >> ten years, my daughter's going to be getting raped and dead in ten years. >> back to the picture, was the alleged victim in control of her senses? could she consent to any kind of sexual inter
i guess my future here is in the hands of president obama. that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts right now. >>> good evening. we begin tonight keeping them honest with new information that goes straight to a key question in the rape in steubenville, ohio. was the young woman in the picture as drunk and incapacitated as the photograph would suggest. was she too out of it or was she unconscious when two football players allegedly assaulted her during a string of parties in august? we...
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the timely lesson for obama, drawn from the experience of lyndon b. johnson, the last president to aggressively fight for comprehensive gun control, is this -- demand action on comprehensive gun control immediately, from this congress, or lose the opportunity during your presidency." joseph califano then goes on to quote lbj directly in terms of the way he instructed his staff directly back in 1968. listen, in the aftermath of the assassination of robert f. kennedy president johnson pressed congress tone act gun control ledge slaix he had sent to capitol hill years earlier. after at sachx lbj ordered all of us on his staff to act swiftly. "we have only two weeks, maybe even ten days," he said, "before the gun lobby gets organized." after newtown president obama was not suggesting action on gun reform in ten days or two weeks but he was asking for it within six weeks, by the end of january. and now joe biden has sped up that six-week time frame to four weeks. and the consequence of that, just like back in 1968, is that the gun lobby is having a hard ti
the timely lesson for obama, drawn from the experience of lyndon b. johnson, the last president to aggressively fight for comprehensive gun control, is this -- demand action on comprehensive gun control immediately, from this congress, or lose the opportunity during your presidency." joseph califano then goes on to quote lbj directly in terms of the way he instructed his staff directly back in 1968. listen, in the aftermath of the assassination of robert f. kennedy president johnson...
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those aren't necessarily obama allies. brennan, hagel, kerry, susan rice, these are really people obama knows and is close to. that's what he's trying to build for his second term. >> i want to bring in congressman adam schiff, democrat from california. always good to see you, congressman, good morning. >> thank you. good morning. >> do you think if this fight if it does materialize over chuck hagel could have the effect of taking the focus off of other things that need to get done? things like the debt ceiling? >> well, i don't think we could afford to let it get in the way of debt ceiling. we only have two or three months to get that done. that fight is getting frankly much more difficult than the fiscal cliff was. we have the debt limit which the president quite rightly has said he won't engage on that. we can't hold that kind of a revolver to the economy that way. but, nonetheless, the gop can shut down the government if it chooses. we have the sequester. so we have to deal with those issues. >> is that where we're hea
those aren't necessarily obama allies. brennan, hagel, kerry, susan rice, these are really people obama knows and is close to. that's what he's trying to build for his second term. >> i want to bring in congressman adam schiff, democrat from california. always good to see you, congressman, good morning. >> thank you. good morning. >> do you think if this fight if it does materialize over chuck hagel could have the effect of taking the focus off of other things that need to get...
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president obama is meeting with president karzai tomorrow.
president obama is meeting with president karzai tomorrow.
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obama is too. this is not going to be a pretty chapter in our history, you know, at all. >> it is, indeed. former assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley, thank you, as always, for your time and expertise, my friend, and thank you to our panel here in new york. david wood, maggie haberman, karen finney, benjamin wallace wells. that is all for now. see you back here tomorrow noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific when i'm joined by eric dyson, ryan rim, the nation's katrina, and bloomberg business week's josh green. until then, find us at facebook.com/now with alex. andrea mitchell reports is coming up next. andrea, i second you my condolences on last night's game and rg3's knee. >> it is a hard day for redskins fans. redskins nation. thank you, alex. coming up live this hour, president obama is about to nominate chuck hagel as defense secretary and john brennan to head the cia. we'll have the announcement just a few moments from now. plus, chuck todd, tom pickering, and one of his chief opponents, senat
obama is too. this is not going to be a pretty chapter in our history, you know, at all. >> it is, indeed. former assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley, thank you, as always, for your time and expertise, my friend, and thank you to our panel here in new york. david wood, maggie haberman, karen finney, benjamin wallace wells. that is all for now. see you back here tomorrow noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific when i'm joined by eric dyson, ryan rim, the nation's katrina, and bloomberg...
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is it really going to defeat president obama and elect mitt romney? where is it going? in the weeks leading up to the election, one of the largest expenditures of the super pac for which dick morris serves as chief strategist, went to a group, and listed it as f fundraising. we reported that, that earned us this letter, and it is true. in the last election cycle, the super pac raised just over $3 million. and they paid $1.7 million to news max for fundraising. but that money that goes to news max, does any of that money that goes to news max for advertising, ultimately come back to dick morris enterprises, since paying dick morris for that is one of the ways he made money, we raised the prospect for what he was raising through the super pac, supposedly to defeat barack obama, was actually just being rerouted back to himself, and i use that word on the air, substantial. in truth, we do not know what proportion of the money raised by dick morris and his super pac, supposedly to defeat barack obama, was actually redirected to dick morris. nowhere does it say the money that
is it really going to defeat president obama and elect mitt romney? where is it going? in the weeks leading up to the election, one of the largest expenditures of the super pac for which dick morris serves as chief strategist, went to a group, and listed it as f fundraising. we reported that, that earned us this letter, and it is true. in the last election cycle, the super pac raised just over $3 million. and they paid $1.7 million to news max for fundraising. but that money that goes to news...
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obama to his credit, the first line of obama's legacy is already written. he is the president who brought universal health care to america. i would argue the big job in the second term -- >> he came for it. >> -- and making it work, so that it doesn't seem to be this unaffordable disastrous. the form of the system that works. he's got his work cut out for him. make health care reform work. >> i would remiss if i didn't put a quick comment. we had bill richardson on, the former new mexico governor, and he said of his trip to north korea, the north koreans are mad at us, do you think it's a good idea? do you think it will eventually lay groundwork to bigger and better things or is it sort of a fool's erand? >> it's a very good idea. the north koreans are mad at us, we're mad at them, too. but at the end of the day, contact, conversation, dialogue, is always good. it's not an endorsement of the north korean regime. nobody thinks that bill richardson thinks north korea is a good place to live. it's just a recognition of the reality. we've got problems with thes
obama to his credit, the first line of obama's legacy is already written. he is the president who brought universal health care to america. i would argue the big job in the second term -- >> he came for it. >> -- and making it work, so that it doesn't seem to be this unaffordable disastrous. the form of the system that works. he's got his work cut out for him. make health care reform work. >> i would remiss if i didn't put a quick comment. we had bill richardson on, the former...
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i think we're seeing barack obama be barack obama. an in your face challenge to the right wing. he's putting in a guy who knows the lessons of vietnam and iraq and putting him out front, making him his point man as he goes into the war of hawkish republicans who count the months between wars as an unwanted time-out. who like nothing more than the next war to fight. meet barack obama two. he's going to run the way he believes to do it. i like it. i think there's one guy out there by the way ironically rooting for obama. it's the guy who got used by the hawks, saw his place ruined by their lies. his name is george w. bush. and he's sitting down there in texas watching the same old predictable crowd of war hawks trying good their number one more time. only this time there's someone in the white house wise to their game. joining me now is msnbc politcal analyst david corn from mother jones. and john feehery. you can throw in your ideas. my idea is this. he picked chuck hagel after watching two or three weeks of him trying to be destroyed by the right wing. he let them hang fire. giv
i think we're seeing barack obama be barack obama. an in your face challenge to the right wing. he's putting in a guy who knows the lessons of vietnam and iraq and putting him out front, making him his point man as he goes into the war of hawkish republicans who count the months between wars as an unwanted time-out. who like nothing more than the next war to fight. meet barack obama two. he's going to run the way he believes to do it. i like it. i think there's one guy out there by the way...
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looks like -- >> barack obama there. >> barack obama and chuck hagel and dick luger, the first person who took president, then senator obama, to moscow and took him on his first foreign trip. chuck hagel who went with him in 2008. importantly -- >> along with jack reid. >> along with jack reid. he didn't endorse president obama, but he was pretty forward leaning in that. >> thets a great picture of the president with dick luger and senator hagel. there's another great picture when chuck hagel came in on halloween and put on a mask that was actually a joe biden mask that said biden for president, and he said vote for me. this was in the committee. it was m committee. my blog at the time got the first picture out of that, and it's out on the internet everywhere, but there was a camaraderie between different players. >> across party lines. >> i remind everybody, my blog at the time helped organize at least some of the questions asked about john bolton after john bolten had been proposed by the president to serve as u.n. ambassador. in the foreign relations committee chuck hagel was soltd
looks like -- >> barack obama there. >> barack obama and chuck hagel and dick luger, the first person who took president, then senator obama, to moscow and took him on his first foreign trip. chuck hagel who went with him in 2008. importantly -- >> along with jack reid. >> along with jack reid. he didn't endorse president obama, but he was pretty forward leaning in that. >> thets a great picture of the president with dick luger and senator hagel. there's another...
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president obama, harry reid, everyone knows we need significant spending cuts. it's about time we act maturely and get together and try to find out what the spending cuts that we have to make can be made in the least onerous way for the american people. we also need to raise more revenue. the fiscal cliff only raised $600 billion of revenue. we need to raise another $600 billion in revenue and we've got to find a way to do that, as well. >> i constantly, in my role as a talk radio host, hear the spending is out of control. and if this is spun as republicans standing up to all of that spending and saying enough is enough, i think the win could be at the gop's back. >> well, i don't know that the wind is at our back. first of all, governor, nice to see you again. i would tell you that spending is the problem, but where we missed the boat is by resisting on the tax side so long that it became about the taxes that the governor lost. and we're still borrowing $1 trillion. but the governor hits the right tone. people have been afraid to look for that common ground. i
president obama, harry reid, everyone knows we need significant spending cuts. it's about time we act maturely and get together and try to find out what the spending cuts that we have to make can be made in the least onerous way for the american people. we also need to raise more revenue. the fiscal cliff only raised $600 billion of revenue. we need to raise another $600 billion in revenue and we've got to find a way to do that, as well. >> i constantly, in my role as a talk radio host,...
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do you believe it is a top priority of the obama administration? i mean keeping out in front of the public obviously is going to be a big part of this happening. and of course ramping up pressure on lawmakers to make the change. we have also seen the national rifle association in recent week take some very aggressive steps to protect their backyard, so to speak, the way they're trying -- giving clinics to arm -- to teach teachers in some states such as ohio and utah, how to use firearms in this discussion of firearms in schools. so how does the obama administration in your opinion make sure that this is a top priority and that the mitch mcconnells of the world can be politically overrun? >> i do believe this is a leadership moment. i think it's a leadership moment for our president. i'm pleased that the steps that he has taken with the biden group. i think they are headed in the right direction. i believe they have a good panel of experts, which includes law enforcement officers from around the country. but it is a leadership moment. and it's reall
do you believe it is a top priority of the obama administration? i mean keeping out in front of the public obviously is going to be a big part of this happening. and of course ramping up pressure on lawmakers to make the change. we have also seen the national rifle association in recent week take some very aggressive steps to protect their backyard, so to speak, the way they're trying -- giving clinics to arm -- to teach teachers in some states such as ohio and utah, how to use firearms in this...
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assembled in the first obama term. this is really the team of buddies, and it's all male. how does that play politically? zoo see that some cabinet posts are almost rewards for strong deputies, good super staffers. we're want seeing the president do this. he wants the people that he wants there, i mean, in a very -- he and -- look, chuck hagel was probably not the first choice of a lot of folks inside the west wing. there's some questions. can he manage a bureaucracy of his size? how many people are qualified to manage a bureaucracy the size of the defense department? he set that question aside. this is -- this was the president's choice, first choice, and obviously this very close relationship with john brennan, trying to give sort of the cia its mojo back, if you will, in the intelligence community, and i think that that's something that brennan -- that some folks in the intel community i think are hoping brennan does. let's also not forget that, you know, with brennan and hagel going up at the same time, andrea, any
assembled in the first obama term. this is really the team of buddies, and it's all male. how does that play politically? zoo see that some cabinet posts are almost rewards for strong deputies, good super staffers. we're want seeing the president do this. he wants the people that he wants there, i mean, in a very -- he and -- look, chuck hagel was probably not the first choice of a lot of folks inside the west wing. there's some questions. can he manage a bureaucracy of his size? how many...
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obama's displaying a confidence that he didn't necessarily show after 2008. let me bring in correspondent john harwood. john, a great pleasure to have you on. if that analysis is accurate, saying there's new level of confidence, where would this confidence lead us, especially with these two national security members if they're all confirmed here? >> well, first of all, it's led us to the point of him being willing to take on these confirmation fights. he was willing to take on susan rice for a while. that one ended up getting too difficult and she stepped aside but the president's got an attitude of i've been vindicated by the election and the record in the first term. i got bin laden, i wound down wars unpopular and he has a -- is looking at republicans and saying, you guys were smack talking me for a couple of years and you had the tea party in 2010 and you thought i was back on my heels but i've just been vindicated by the voters in the election with 51% and i'm going to try to impose my will as much as i can. >> chuck hagel and john kerry, the politico to
obama's displaying a confidence that he didn't necessarily show after 2008. let me bring in correspondent john harwood. john, a great pleasure to have you on. if that analysis is accurate, saying there's new level of confidence, where would this confidence lead us, especially with these two national security members if they're all confirmed here? >> well, first of all, it's led us to the point of him being willing to take on these confirmation fights. he was willing to take on susan rice...
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president obama, harry reid, everyone knows we need significant spending cuts. it's about time we act maturely and get together and try to find out what the spending cuts that we have to make can be made in the least onerous way for the american people. we also need to raise more revenue. the fiscal cliff only raised $600 billion of revenue. we need to raise another $600 billion in revenue and we've got to find a way to do that, as well. >> i constantly, in my role as a talk radio host, hear the spending is out of control. and if this is spun as republicans standing up to all of that spending and saying enough is enough, i think the win could be at the gop's back. >> well, i don't know that the wind is at our back. first of all, governor, nice to see you again. i would tell you that spending is the problem, but where we missed the boat is by resisting on the tax side so long that it became about the taxes that the governor lost. and we're still borrowing $1 trillion. but the governor hits the right tone. people have been afraid to look for that common ground. i
president obama, harry reid, everyone knows we need significant spending cuts. it's about time we act maturely and get together and try to find out what the spending cuts that we have to make can be made in the least onerous way for the american people. we also need to raise more revenue. the fiscal cliff only raised $600 billion of revenue. we need to raise another $600 billion in revenue and we've got to find a way to do that, as well. >> i constantly, in my role as a talk radio host,...
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obama calling them futile. response to the boehner claims and so far shep we have not gotten one. >> we got tax increases on some americans and it sounds like there may be more to come? >> depends on whom you ask. here is senate minority leader republican mitch mcconnell. >> the tax issue is finished, over, completed. that's behind us. now the question is what are we going to do about the biggest problem confronting our country and our future and that's our spending addiction. it's time to confront it. >> but when it comes to increasing tax revenue again, house minority leader democrat nancy pelosi says this. quote: i'm saying that's not off the table, put it all on the table and see what is working. as you mentioned, the measures right now in place to keep the u.s. from defaulting on financial obligations and those automatic sequester cuts are both set to hit around march 1st if these negotiations can't be worked out. stand by. shep? >> shepard: shannon bream on capitol hill. shannon. college kids love themsel
obama calling them futile. response to the boehner claims and so far shep we have not gotten one. >> we got tax increases on some americans and it sounds like there may be more to come? >> depends on whom you ask. here is senate minority leader republican mitch mcconnell. >> the tax issue is finished, over, completed. that's behind us. now the question is what are we going to do about the biggest problem confronting our country and our future and that's our spending addiction....
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you've got to give him credit. >> give president obama credit. he extended them. >> he's the one who did the last half percent. keith, kathryn, jim, we really covered the waterfront today. we're all going to go and see that movie "zero dark 30." thanks for watching. i am larry kudlow. we'll see you next week.
you've got to give him credit. >> give president obama credit. he extended them. >> he's the one who did the last half percent. keith, kathryn, jim, we really covered the waterfront today. we're all going to go and see that movie "zero dark 30." thanks for watching. i am larry kudlow. we'll see you next week.
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unless obama agrees to trillions of sending cuts outright. if cracks are forming in the republicans offensive, democrats don't have to resort to unconventional means. we'll see what adam schiff thinks about this. because he knows a little something about something. >> he does. >> stephanie: bob in boston you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, bob. >> caller: how are you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: any time people want to put guns in schools, why don't you just respond by saying fort hood. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: how come so many people died at fort hood at the hands of one shooter. >> stephanie: columbine also there was an armed guard. yeah, that's just a ridiculous idea. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: that's just dumb. okay. twenty-nine minutes after the hour. charlie pierce next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the
unless obama agrees to trillions of sending cuts outright. if cracks are forming in the republicans offensive, democrats don't have to resort to unconventional means. we'll see what adam schiff thinks about this. because he knows a little something about something. >> he does. >> stephanie: bob in boston you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, bob. >> caller: how are you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: any time people want to put guns...
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i think for obama there were also three challenges. one sort of parallel to romneyrallying his base, he had to rally his liberal base as well. there were concerns that liberals had been a little disenchanted or let down by the progress or lack of progress that they thought had been made over his first term and whether the liberal sort of bloc would really get enthusiastic and back him strongly was a question. he had to mobilize some key groups that helped him in 2008 but are not necessarily traditionally strong turnout segments, particularly younger voters and minority voters. and i think most people thought, and we certainly thought, that getting that level of engagement if not equal to '08, at least more than maybe the historical norm would be critical to him. and a third one, obviously, is the economy. you know, an incumbent is going to be, to some extent, held accountable for economic circumstances. he was facing, obviously, continued 8% plus unemployment levels nationwide and a lot of public discouragement about the direction in i
i think for obama there were also three challenges. one sort of parallel to romneyrallying his base, he had to rally his liberal base as well. there were concerns that liberals had been a little disenchanted or let down by the progress or lack of progress that they thought had been made over his first term and whether the liberal sort of bloc would really get enthusiastic and back him strongly was a question. he had to mobilize some key groups that helped him in 2008 but are not necessarily...
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>> my winner is president obama and what i'm calling obama 2.0 and this is a much more activist president, sticking to his gun, no waffling and going to the american people and what he said is going over the head of washington, both republicans and democrats because democrats can sometimes be obstructive in the second term. in this 2.0 obama you will see a lot more skilled presidency in the second term. my loser was the economy. we've got -- we're moving in the right direction with housing and we had a great stock market and we went up over 13,000 and the republicans keep fighting the president on the economy because they realized that this president will go down in history, whether it's a good president or bad president based solely on the economy. so my loser this week was the economy because the republicans continued to fight over minor things that are obstruct issing us to moving this economy forward. >> perry, how about yours? best and worst. >> best was joe biden this week. we always make fun of him because he doesn't say the right thing all of the time and he makes gaffes and he's
>> my winner is president obama and what i'm calling obama 2.0 and this is a much more activist president, sticking to his gun, no waffling and going to the american people and what he said is going over the head of washington, both republicans and democrats because democrats can sometimes be obstructive in the second term. in this 2.0 obama you will see a lot more skilled presidency in the second term. my loser was the economy. we've got -- we're moving in the right direction with...
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says obama isn't a progressive. why would anyone think he might actually appoint a progressive to a cabinet post. harsh words for the president there. >> bill: actually, i think somebody who opposed the surge in iraq and somebody who says we have to cut the bloated budget, a republican who says that -- that's as close to a progressive republican as you can get. not a democrat. >> barbara in d.c. on the hagel topic says haig the voted against the iraq war. enough said. >> bill: he did not. he voted for the iraq war. >> later opposed it. >> and while we're on a theme here of your sore throat, don says -- no booze in this one. >> bill: promises, promises. no booze in this. a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. a teaspoon of natural honey and mix it into hot green tea. i would suggest maybe add a little whiskey to that. >> i would too. >> but that's from don on twitter. we're tweeting at bpshow as well. >> bill: we should mention john brennan. >> yes. >> bill: i walked out of the white house yesterday. walked into benjamin, o
says obama isn't a progressive. why would anyone think he might actually appoint a progressive to a cabinet post. harsh words for the president there. >> bill: actually, i think somebody who opposed the surge in iraq and somebody who says we have to cut the bloated budget, a republican who says that -- that's as close to a progressive republican as you can get. not a democrat. >> barbara in d.c. on the hagel topic says haig the voted against the iraq war. enough said. >> bill:...
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there are wounds from losing the election to president obama. conservative base of the republican party is not happy with this initial deal on the fiscal cliff. so they're looking for republicans to plant flags. now taxes and spending has nothing to do with chuck hagel except for gloria's point about a downsizing at the pentagon. chuck hagel has been on the record saying it's too bloated. while it's not connected to some of the other games of political chess in washington, in some ways everything is connected. >> the white house makes the calculation that if republicans are going to oppose chuck hagel because he ended up being opposed to the war in iraq, that's a fight the white house is happy to have. more than half of the public is opposed -- was opposed to the war in iraq, too, in the end. this is something that they feel they can do. they wouldn't have nominated him, wolf, if they didn't think he would get confirm but it's a political fight that they shouldn't shy away from. >> i'll bring jim acosta in this conversation in a moment. brianna
there are wounds from losing the election to president obama. conservative base of the republican party is not happy with this initial deal on the fiscal cliff. so they're looking for republicans to plant flags. now taxes and spending has nothing to do with chuck hagel except for gloria's point about a downsizing at the pentagon. chuck hagel has been on the record saying it's too bloated. while it's not connected to some of the other games of political chess in washington, in some ways...